{"id":9532,"date":"2022-08-04T12:46:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9532"},"modified":"2022-08-04T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:46:39","slug":"will-got-another-field-of-hay-up-just-before-an-inch-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2022\/08\/04\/will-got-another-field-of-hay-up-just-before-an-inch-of-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Will got another field of hay up, just before an inch of rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, it’s getting hard to farm around here.\u00a0 We seem not to have three days of sunshine in a row anymore.\u00a0 And it takes at least three days to cut, rake and dry to bale hay.\u00a0 Will’s getting frustrated as he still has like five more farms to hay.\u00a0 It’s funny; last year it was so dry there was no hay, although, of course, plenty of sunshine.\u00a0 This year, the hay is thick, but you just can’t get it put up.\u00a0 Whew, but it’s getting tricky!<\/p>\n

We hate coming and going down our driveway as the new owner of the 80 from the road in is now logging the 40 acres next to our land.\u00a0 Yep, our house is still more than half a mile down the driveway, but we hate to watch that woodland go bald.\u00a0 We knew it would happen, but boy it’s ugly.<\/p>\n

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This is the 40 acres BEFORE logging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is the same spot, DURING logging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been busily live trapping ground squirrels and have caught over 25 so far, releasing them far <\/em>away from anyone, place, in the woods.\u00a0 Someday soon, I hope to run out of the little buggers!\u00a0 They are so destructive to our gardens, eating plants off, the centers out of melons and the leaves off beans.<\/p>\n

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Here’s another ground squirrel, headed for a new home, far, far away!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not able to hay, Will’s been working overtime, weeding in the gardens.\u00a0 Yesterday, he took the old Simplicity tractor with tiller to the North Garden, tilling in between the corn rows where he had mowed the weeds.\u00a0 It fit just right and really did a nice job.\u00a0 Thank you, Bill, for letting us use that wonderful helper! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know, it’s getting hard to farm around here.\u00a0 We seem not to have three days of sunshine in a row anymore.\u00a0 And it takes at least three days to cut, rake and dry to bale hay.\u00a0 Will’s getting frustrated as he still has like five more farms to hay.\u00a0 It’s funny; last year it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,26,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9536,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9532\/revisions\/9536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}